Is Kagi the newish paid search engine funding Russia via Yandex (lemmy.world)

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I recently (as in just now) bought a month of the Kagi Search engine to give it a whirl. THEN I heard they use Yandex which is Russian and well... Russia and Ukraine. Any truth to this?

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[-] capital@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

yandex is about 2% of our total cost, to put things into perspective

I encourage subscribers to check out this thread and weigh in.

[-] badelf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 days ago

They pull from several other search indexes, and they have awesome features. Infinitely more valuable than an overpriced coffee for $5/month.

I love the quick summarizer.

[-] Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca 32 points 3 days ago

They also pay Brave for their results

[-] renzev@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Lmao these losers are paying for brave search results? Just go to search.brave.com its free hahahaha

[-] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 35 points 3 days ago

Yes they use Yandex along with the others.

Personally I don't use them.

[-] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 36 points 3 days ago

They use a lot of sources to get the best results: their index, and then others. I doubt much goes to Yandex but they don’t specify.

[-] realitista@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago

I only use Kagi when I can't find something on other search engines. It often delivers where others can't. But so far the free 100 searches have lasted me 3 months and I think will likely last me years at the rate I'm using them.

[-] MITM0@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Yandex is actually a better search engine than google (& all this BS about Russian bias is lies) Use it & judge it yourselves, don't take my word for it (not that my word has any value😅)

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